add auto updater

autoupdater.js

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/**
+ * updater.js
+ * 
+ * Please use manual update only when it is really required, otherwise please use recommended non-intrusive auto update.
+ * 
+ * Import steps:
+ * 1. create `updater.js` for the code snippet
+ * 2. require `updater.js` for menu implementation, and set `checkForUpdates` callback from `updater` for the click property of `Check Updates...` MenuItem.
+ */
+const  dialog  = require('electron').dialog;
+const  autoUpdater  = require('electron-updater').autoUpdater;
+
+autoUpdater.autoDownload = false
+
+autoUpdater.on('error', (event, error) => {
+  dialog.showErrorBox('Error: ', error == null ? "unknown" : (error.stack || error).toString())
+})
+
+autoUpdater.on('update-available', () => {
+  dialog.showMessageBox({
+    type: 'info',
+    title: 'Found Updates',
+    message: 'Found updates, do you want update now?',
+    buttons: ['Sure', 'No']
+  }, (buttonIndex) => {
+    if (buttonIndex === 0) {
+      autoUpdater.downloadUpdate()
+    } 
+  })
+})
+
+autoUpdater.on('update-not-available', () => {
+  dialog.showMessageBox({
+    title: 'No Updates', 
+    message: 'Current version is up-to-date.'
+  })
+})
+
+autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', () => {
+  dialog.showMessageBox({
+    title: 'Install Updates',
+    message: 'Updates downloaded, application will be quit for update...'
+  }, () => {
+    autoUpdater.quitAndInstall()
+  })
+})
+
+// export this to MenuItem click callback
+function checkForUpdates () {
+  autoUpdater.checkForUpdates()
+}
+module.exports.checkForUpdates = checkForUpdates

main.js

@@ -1,30 +1,23 @@
 require('./route');
+require('./autoupdater');
 const electron = require("electron");
 const isDev = require("electron-is-dev");
 // Module to control application life.
 
 const app = electron.app;
-const autoUpdater = require('electron-updater').autoUpdater;
+const autoUpdater = require('./autoupdater');
 
 // initialize ejs parser
 
 // Module to create native browser window.
 const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow;
 const url = require("url");
-
 // Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
 // be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
 let mainWindow;
-let updaterError = false;
 // this part is for autoupdater
-const updateFeed = "https://github.com/doviettung96/TungDV_Node_Express_EJS_Mysql/releases";
 
-autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', () => {
-    autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();
-})
-autoUpdater.on("error", (ev, err) => {
-    updaterError = true;
-});
+
 
 // This method will be called when Electron has finished
 // initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
@@ -73,7 +66,6 @@ let createWindow = function () {
     mainWindow.focus();
 
     // Open the DevTools.
-    if(updaterError)
         mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
 
     // Emitted when the window is closed.
@@ -84,3 +76,5 @@ let createWindow = function () {
         mainWindow = null;
     });
 };
+
+

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "Node-Express-EJS-Mysql",
-  "version": "1.0.9",
+  "version": "1.0.10",
   "description": "A simple app with Node-Express-EJS-Mysql",
   "main": "main.js",
   "scripts": {